His conscience clear, having never claimed 9/11 and all that was "our fault" due to so-called imperialistic "root causes," the Babe nestles into Tuck's lap for a lovely nap.
"Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture,'' Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al-Arabiya television, wrote in his daily column published in the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, reports The Times of India:
It ran under the headline "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!''
Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag could never concede, of course, as their entire sense of self depends upon the United States' being the root of all evil, but do you suppose this fellow al-Rashed is getting religion?
Images of dead, wounded and traumatized Russian children being carried from the scene of a rebel school siege have horrified the Arab world, prompting forthright self-criticism and fresh concern about an international backlash against Islam and its followers.
Arab leaders, Muslim clerics and ordinary parents across the Middle East denounced the school siege as unjustifiable. Some warned such actions damage Islam's image more than all its enemies could hope. Even some supporters of Islamic militancy condemned it, though at least one insisted Muslims were not behind it.
[via JB of Notes & Musings]
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